https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kbewq/the-joe-rogan-controversy-is-about-joe-rogan-saying-racist-things

Over the weekend, India Arie released a video on Instagram compiling some of the many, many times that Joe Rogan has said the n-word on his podcast, and saying that his doing so was one of the reasons why she was pulling her music from the platform. Many Joe Rogan defenders, including the CEO of Spotify, have done their best to not engage with what she—and Rogan—actually said, making what would in any circumstances have been an excruciating debate somehow even more so.

In her video, Arie took issue with Rogan’s stance on COVID, which has led to him hosting conspiracy theorists and not doing much to interrogate their views when not agreeing with them. She also, though, pointed out that he has said incredibly bigoted things about black people on his podcast, including using the n-word, multiple times. In an Instagram post, she tied this to Spotify’s treatment of musicians, and said that the issue is about respect.